Doug Levitt Paints a True Picture of Today’s America

There were once days when people envisioned a land of possibilities in which every one was able to earn their keep while living the life they fashioned for themselves. Those days of America sadly have long gone and instead have been replaced by stories of factory closings, incarcerations, and financial strife. But as people congregate more closely than before in cities looking for employment opportunities much of the real America has been left in unseen pockets of the land, known to very few outsiders.

It is this unseen version of America, the country that has been left reeling to adapt to a global economy, that writer, poet, musician, and former CNN correspondent Doug Levitt sought out and embraced in his works. Through travelling across the country and meeting with many of the people who have fallen through the cracks of a system that has long stopped functioning, Doug Levitt captured the essence of the reality many Americans live every day, which given the current disconnect and the political problems it has caused, is more necessary now than ever.